David Kay, and conservative cognitive dissonance

Here's the scenario:

An awful leader with socialist leanings is duped by scientists to spend lots of government money on programs that never come to fruition. Meanwhile, the leader thinks the programs are going well, and keeps spending government money, not realizing the scientists are wasting the money on their own livelihood and not on the programs.

You'd think a conservative would love to point that kind of story out, because it totally supports their views of 'all spending is wasteful spending' and 'we want smaller government'. But when that awful leader is Saddam Hussein, and the programs are weapons programs, the conservatives refuse to believe it!. After all, Saddam Hussein was evil!

This is the scenario that David Kay laid out in his latest report, where Saddam thought he was paying for WMD development, but the weapons were never developed. Naomi Wolf valiantly brought this up on Dennis Miller's dreadful new TV show, but David Horowitz and David Frum spun the issue around and said, "It was never about WMDs, it was about UN resolutions being violated, and human rights violations." To which I say,

1. If it wasn't about WMDs, then why did Bush harp on them during his 2003 State of the Union address? "Biological, chemical, nuclear! Are you scared yet?"
2. Do you see any problem at all with waging an illegal war, contrary to UN protocols, to enforce UN resolutions?
3. Amnesty International has lists of many, many countries that violate basic human rights. If that's truly your concern, then we must "liberate" them NOW!

This WMD issue is a major fuck-up on the part of the Bush administration, not the CIA or the UN or whomever Horowitz and Frum would like to blame. The administration that was supposed to 'bring grown-ups back to the White House' is unwilling to take responsibility for their grievous mistakes, and no amount of spin should blind you to that fact.